Kong Gateway

The world’s most popular open source API gateway. Built for multi-cloud and hybrid, optimized for microservices and distributed architectures.

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Overview of Kong’s API Gateway

Accelerate your microservices journey with the world’s most popular open source API gateway. Built on top of a lightweight proxy, the Kong Gateway delivers unparalleled latency performance and scalability for all your microservice applications regardless of where they run. Exercise granular control over your traffic with Kong gateway’s plugin architecture.

Features

Authentication

Protect your services with an authentication layer

Traffic Control

Manage, throttle, and restrict inbound and outbound API traffic

Analytics

Visualize, inspect, and monitor APIs and microservices traffic

Transformations

Transform requests and responses on the fly

Logging

Stream request and response data to logging solutions

Serverless

Invoke serverless functions via APIs

Get Started in 1 minute

Add your Service and Route on Kong
After installing and starting Kong, use the Admin API on port 8001 to add a new Service and Route. In this example, Kong will reverse proxy every incoming request with the specified incoming host to the associated upstream URL. You can implement very complex routing mechanisms beyond simple host matching.
Add Plugins on the Service
Then add extra functionality by using Kong Plugins. You can also create your own plugins!
Make a Request
...and then you can consume the Service on port 8000 by requesting the specified host. In production setup the public host DNS to point to your Kong cluster. Kong supports much more functionality, explore the Hub and the documentation.

$ curl -i -X POST \
  --url http://localhost:8001/services/ \
  --data 'name=example-service' \
  --data 'url=http://example.com'
$ curl -i -X POST \
  --url http://localhost:8001/services/example-service/routes \
  --data 'hosts[]=example.com' \

$ curl -i -X POST \
--url http://localhost:8001/services/example-service/plugins/ \
--data 'name=rate-limiting' \
--data 'config.minute=100'

$ curl -i -X GET \
  --url http://localhost:8000/ \
  --header 'Host: example.com'

Benefits

Unparalleled Performance

Achieve the industry’s best latency performance with Kong’s ultra-performant core. Ensure seamless communication across all your services regardless of where they run.

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Designed for cloud-scale

Maximize resource efficiency and minimize footprint with Kong’s lightweight core. Scale Kong nodes linearly to process trillions of API calls with zero decrease in performance or stability.

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Unmatched Flexibility and Extensibility

Run Kong on any environment, platform, and in any implementation pattern – from baremetal to cloud, containers to Kubernetes. Easily extend Kong to fit any use case with custom plugins.

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